Re: [LFS Trac] #5744: ncurses-6.5-20250531: Too many levels of symbolic links

#5744: ncurses-6.5-20250531: Too many levels of symbolic links
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 Reporter:  pierre  |       Owner:  pierre
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  12.4
Component:  Book    |     Version:  git
 Severity:  major   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:          |
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Old description:

> Running on debian stable, which has ncurses-6.4, I get when running the
> make command in chapter 6:
> {{{
> ...
> ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
> Running tic to install /home/pierre/build/LFS-ESS/usr/share/terminfo
> }}}
> So it seems TIC_PATH is not honored.
> Then this tic creates a /usr/share/terminfo directory with a lot of
> symlinks, while recent tic uses hardlinks. This creates a problem later
> in chapter 8, where copying the dest dir to / creates symlinks pointing
> to themselves! Hence the error message mentioned in the subject...

New description:

 First reported by Marcin Dulak...
 Running on debian stable, which has ncurses-6.4, I get when running the
 make command in chapter 6:
 {{{
 ...
 ** Building terminfo database, please wait...
 Running tic to install /home/pierre/build/LFS-ESS/usr/share/terminfo
 }}}
 So it seems TIC_PATH is not honored.
 Then this tic creates a /usr/share/terminfo directory with a lot of
 symlinks, while recent tic uses hardlinks. This creates a problem later in
 chapter 8, where copying the dest dir to / creates symlinks pointing to
 themselves! Hence the error message mentioned in the subject...

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Comment (by pierre):

 Suggestion of Xi Ruoyao: install tic in $LFS/tools/bin, so that it is
 easily found
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